“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Comment: now: for all of the fanatic’s display of energy, he feels basically powerless. To your not-so-silent gallery group in New York, for example, you have the power, which may surprise you in some of your querulous moods—but you have the format, the attention, that such people envy and resent.

The world is composed of individuals. It is therefore unrealistic to expect, say, wholesale criticism—or, for that matter, wholesale praise. It is a give-and-take world. In those terms, now, there is an open forum, and within it you make your own reality. No one is going to mistake Ruburt for a fanatic, or a psychic nut, or whatever. He can see through this experience how such people behave. He cannot remotely be considered in that framework—except by fanatics, who are already within it.

When ideals are set more or less artificially, greatly divorced from man’s nature, he cannot begin to live up to them. Usually these are, for one thing, too narrow and sterile. The ensuing guilt is the power that turns such a person into a fanatic. I hope to teach you a tolerance for others, for this will ensure the greatest development of your own abilities, and will also give you a more realistic view of the world.

(10:42.) Give us a moment.... I am hopefully leading you along a road, and I believe that you have each examined your beliefs more lately than you have in some time. Ruburt’s condition is definitely reversible. That fact follows all of the other information I have ever given you philosophically. Your individual and joint feelings about threat have to one extent or another made Ruburt believe that he needed that protection.

He tries to be independent in the bath, for example—a healthy attempt. In any case, if you follow the latest sessions, and if you both really exerted your creativity and daring in the area of Ruburt’s condition, you would literally be quite astonished at the results.